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The book that makes you laugh because you know it could really happen. A humpback whale strands in the Baltic Sea. Within 72 hours it has more social media reach than the Chancellor, more rescuers than makes any sense, and more petitions than the petitions committee can process. And right in the middle of it all: harbour master Hansi, who only wanted to fix his crab trap - and now finds himself chairing the Interministerial Working Group Timmy. Because nobody else wanted the job. As it turns out, that's a recurring theme in his life. Marc Bergdorf tells the story of a country that hurls itself into its greatest misunderstanding with maximum determination and minimum coordination. The bureaucracy needs 14 days to issue a stranding permit. The billionaire arrives by helicopter and presents an iPad rendering worth 3.2 million euros. The billionaire's ex-wife immediately launches a rival pink rescue operation. The NGO declares the whale unsaveable - and goes live with a memorial candle webshop 14 minutes later. The press spokesperson resigns seven times. Out on the mudflats, 200 people form a human chain so that 30 others don't simply push the whale. Nobody pushes. Nobody rescues. Everyone feels good about themselves. Timmy, I Hope We'll Make It is the social satire this country - and honestly, every country - has been waiting for: warm, wickedly precise, and so funny that while reading you briefly forget it could all be entirely true. No camp escapes unscathed. Every character gets a moment of genuine humanity. And Hansi takes exactly one sip of coffee in every scene before saying what everyone else is thinking. For everyone who sometimes doesn't know whether to laugh or cry when reading the news. Now you can do both at the same time.

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